Saturday, September 29, 2012

This is a question that few of his supporters will concern themselves with --
nor will many of them they wonder why we don't all have everything we need by
now. But I digress...

In case anyone else wondered how Barack Obama can afford
to bestow phones on a chosen few vocal supporters, the answerisn't that he bought them himself or used campaign
donations to do so.

The program is called Lifeline, established in 1984, originally
created to subsidize landline phone service for low income Americans, funded by
government-collected telecommunication fees, paid by consumers.

"Government-collected", by the way, is a euphemism for "stolen" in this
case.

The rest of the article goes on to explain that the cost of
this program skyrocketed once cell phones were included. A conservative
congressman has even produced a video about the escalating costs of the
program, but so what? The costs are indeed bothersome, but this immoral, rights-violating
program should be abolished, and not merely reduced in size.

It's
not the costs that are the real problem. The real problem is that nobody bats
an eye about the government stealing money from random individuals -- in this
case, through small add-ons to telecommunications bills. The excuse that people
need phones -- or anything else -- does not make any theft, no matter how
small, any less wrong.

Weekend
Reading

"[P]erhaps this little bit of insight can help
reduce the captive listeners' exasperation by reminding us that, beneath
the fragile veneer of 'knowing it all,' they actually feel like they
don't know very much at all." -- Michael Hurd, in "Are You a Captive Listener?" at
DrHurd.com

The Salsman
piece is a must-read for anyone concerned about Barack Obama's appeasement of
Moslems or refusal to defend freedom of speech. I fit both categories and I was
still amazed at just how bad he is on each count. Read the whole thing.

Whom Obama Appeases

An
Iranian news agency has apparently reprinted a farcial piece from The Onion word-for-word as news.

The article cited a fake poll which found 77% of white, rural
workers would rather go to a baseball game or have a beer with Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, known for his tirades against the West, than with Mr
Obama.